Changelog

Sharp Stock is constantly evolving, committed to providing a superior asset management experience for game developers.

v1.8.13

New Features

• Copy assets across apps: Copy assets or folders in Sharp Stock and paste them into File Explorer, Finder, or other apps that accept pasted files. Mixed selections can include images, models, and audio. Sprites provide the original frame files that make up the animation. Cut remains limited to moves within the library.
• Copy image content: Copying one readable static PNG, JPEG, WebP, BMP, or GIF also provides image content for drawing or chat apps that accept pasted images. Multiple selections provide all selected files, without copying only the first image or creating a collage. The receiving app determines how pasted content is handled.

Bug Fixes

• Video conversion thumbnails: Fixed MP4 files created by conversion not receiving automatic thumbnails. Overwriting a file now refreshes the card image and retries thumbnail generation even if it previously failed.

v1.8.10

New Features

• Sharp Stock Clipper Browser Capture: The companion extension lets you import web images and audio directly into your local library from Chrome or Edge using shortcuts, context menus, or the extension panel. Source-page links are saved automatically so you can revisit where assets came from. The Browser Capture page in Settings provides installation links and instructions, with import results shown in both the extension and desktop app.
• Quick Library Switching: Switch directly to a recently opened library from Library Status in Settings, without browsing for its folder again, to move easily between projects. The list shows up to five other libraries; removing a record only removes the shortcut and leaves local files intact.
• Video Conversion and Frame Export: Convert videos to MP4, GIF, or PNG/JPG frame sequences with resolution, frame rate, and time-range controls. Track progress or cancel a task; results are saved as new assets while preserving the source video.
• GIF Compression: A dedicated tool offers resolution, maximum frame rate, palette, and dithering controls, presets, and comparison before saving. Create a new file by default or explicitly choose to overwrite the source GIF.
• Batch Renaming: Combine prefix, suffix, find-and-replace, character removal, numbering, case, and separator rules. Preview names before applying changes while preserving file extensions.
• Batch Image Resizing: Resize multiple images in one operation to reduce repetitive setup and editing.
• Quick Background Removal and Light-Effect Processing: Process single images or batches using color picking, tolerance, feathering, and light-effect algorithms, with live previews and comparison before saving. Light-effect processing is also available when removing backgrounds during automatic splitting.
• More Asset Formats: Added OBJ model previews with companion MTL material loading, plus WOFF and WOFF2 font support.
• Targeted Rescans: Rescan folders or selected assets to update file properties, metadata, and thumbnails without scanning the entire library.

Improvements

• Image Comparison: Unified split, hold-to-view-original, and side-by-side comparisons, with improved color-channel, transparency-background, zoom, and pan controls for inspecting results.
• Menus and Tool Layouts: Reorganized image context menus and refined batch rename, batch resize, and full-window tools. Improved keyboard access and accessibility feedback, and prevented macOS window controls from overlapping dialog content.

Bug Fixes

• Data Synchronization After Moves and Overwrites: Fixed incorrect metadata and thumbnail handling after asset moves, missing thumbnails and errors after importing or moving over an existing file, and batch move conflict failures.
• 3D Model Display: Fixed some thumbnail generation failures and differences between model previews and thumbnails.
• BMP Dimensions: Fixed resolution detection failures and invalid dimension values in the resize tool for some BMP files.
• Library Switching and Search Indexing: Fixed quick library switching getting stuck during validation, and improved coordination between asset operations and visual search indexing.
• Quick Background Removal and Menus: Fixed several batch background removal issues and context menus failing to close when clicking elsewhere.
• Plist Generation and Input Controls: Fixed untranslated Plist errors and incorrect numeric input displays. Dismissing an error now returns to the original generation dialog so you can continue adjusting settings.

v1.7.7

New Features

• Visual Similarity Search: Drop an external or library image into the search box, or use Find Similar from an asset action, to locate visually related content. CoreML acceleration is available on macOS.
• Dominant Color Filters: Sharp Stock extracts the main colors from image assets so you can filter the library for assets with similar tones.
• In-App Copy and Cut: Copy, cut, and paste files or folders inside the asset library for faster organization and reuse.
• Double-Click Expanded Preview: Double-click an asset to open its expanded preview, with an option to configure this behavior in Settings.
• Before-and-After Image Comparison: Review AI background removal and Tinify results before deciding whether to save them.

Improvements

• Search and Filter Feedback: Search entry points are more consistent, library-image drops match Find Similar behavior, and the Filter button shows how many filters are active.
• Interface and Accessibility: Improved keyboard navigation, focus handling, dialogs, toasts, Settings, and the right sidebar layout for clearer and safer interactions.
• Settings Organization: Third-party license information now has a dedicated Settings tab.

Bug Fixes

• Spine Preview Compatibility: Improved support across Spine versions and fixed previews that appeared too small or off-center.
• Visual Similarity Search: Fixed inaccurate matching for wide or tall images, library images being treated as external files when dropped, and dominant-color details disappearing after a search.
• Video Thumbnails: Fixed some videos producing fully transparent thumbnails.
• Image Comparison and Dialogs: Fixed hover hiding the selected comparison border and Enter reopening the New Folder dialog.
• Asset and Interface Stability: Fixed file-loading errors after deleting assets, app-generated assets missing from the AI search index, and right-sidebar scrollbar alignment.

v1.6.5

New Features

• Local AI Background Removal: Added a local AI matting workflow with multiple model choices, batch processing, and direct integration with automatic image splitting. Hardware acceleration is available through DirectML on Windows and CoreML on macOS.
• Interactive 3D Preview: Rotate, zoom, and pan 3D models to inspect assets more naturally.
• Enhanced Automatic Splitting: Added distance-based region detection while retaining the original bounding-box mode.
• Batch Tinify Compression: Compress multiple PNG images with Tinify in one operation. The Steam edition uses local Squoosh; other channels can also select TinyPNG with a user-provided API token.
• Filename Conflict Handling: Imports and assets created by image tools can detect and resolve duplicate filenames, reducing overwrites and failed imports.
• More Languages: Added Russian, Korean, and Brazilian Portuguese UI and store copy.
• Store Review Reminders: Added dismissible store rating reminders at appropriate usage milestones, with a setting to control them.

Improvements

• Import and Scan Progress: Clearer progress feedback makes long import and scan operations easier to follow.
• SVN Workflow: SVN Revert now lists all affected files, while conflicting actions are disabled during Commit and Revert operations.
• Image Editing Access: Image editing actions are now available from the asset context menu, with consistent ellipses for commands that open additional settings.
• AI Model Management: Improved model names, downloads, and selection, with recommended local models shown more prominently.
• Lite / Steam Demo Batch Processing: Batch asset generation now handles the 100-asset limit more clearly and consistently.

Bug Fixes

• GIF Resizing: Fixed GIF files failing to resize while preserving their animation.
• GIF File Locks: Fixed GIF files remaining locked after preview or resize, which could prevent later move, delete, or SVN operations.
• SVN and Database Stability: Fixed database access conflicts during SVN Revert.
• Demo and macOS Stability: Fixed incorrect AppData use in Demo editions, macOS DMG builds failing to quit, and selected Demo signing issues.
• AI Matting Feedback: Fixed errors in AI model settings and an incorrect completion message after automatic image splitting.
• Audio Waveform Display: Fixed inconsistent waveform displays for the same audio file across thumbnails, standard previews, and expanded previews.

v1.5.6

New Features

• Lite / Steam Demo Editions: Added free Lite / Steam Demo support with clearer names for each distribution channel.
• Expanded Language Support: Added Japanese and Vietnamese UI and store copy, improving international availability.

Bug Fixes

• Generated Asset Metadata: Fixed missing metadata import for new assets created by tools such as image splitting.
• Startup Scan DB Changes: Fixed startup auto scans that could unexpectedly change the database state.
• SVN Update/Revert Scans: Fixed full scans triggered by SVN Update/Revert changing asset mtime values.
• Thumbnail Folder Cleanup: Fixed thumbnail subfolders not being removed when deleting matching asset folders.
• Asset Grid Layout: Fixed the grid still showing a fixed asset-card count after enlarging the window.
• Feedback Image Paste: Fixed feedback image paste incorrectly opening the create-image-asset flow.

v1.4.5

New Features

• Audio Waveform Display: Added waveform visualization for audio assets in both the preview panel and grid thumbnails.
• Non-silent start detection: Audio assets now support detection of non-silent start time.
• Asset Details & Metadata: Restructured the database schema and upgraded the Asset Details panel to display specific attributes for various asset types (e.g. 3D models, fonts, and texture atlases).
• Regenerate Thumbnails: Added a "Regenerate Thumbnail" option to the asset context menu to manually update or fix thumbnails.

Improvements

• Scan & Import Optimization: Optimized data generation to produce metadata and thumbnails concurrently during import and startup scans, eliminating lazy-generation lag and runtime conflicts.
• Database Upgrade Scan: Prompted scans after database upgrades now share the same behavior as full scans in the settings menu.

Bug Fixes

• Version Upgrade Recovery: Fixed an issue where running a lower app version against a higher database version triggered errors without redirecting to the main screen.
• SVN Revert DB Errors: Fixed database errors triggered by SVN revert operations after database upgrades.
• macOS SVN Non-ASCII Commit: Fixed SVN commit failures on macOS when the commit messages contained non-ASCII characters (e.g., Chinese).

v1.3.3

New Features

• Zoom preview: Open a full-screen zoom preview for image assets via context menu or shortcut for detail inspection.
• Auto matting/split: New content-aware matting and splitting tool, reachable from the image edit area or context menu; select regions and export as separate assets.
• Squoosh compression: Built-in Squoosh engine for high-quality in-app image compression to reduce disk and package size.
• Clipboard paste import: Paste images from the clipboard into the current folder to create assets quickly.
• Empty-state hints: Prompt to import when a selected folder has no files; prompt to clear filters when search returns no results.
• Mac App Store: Mac sandbox packaging and App Store distribution; Mac-native shortcuts and tabless UI (“Show in Finder”, and more).

Improvements

• First launch: Clearer onboarding copy; library creation no longer allows selecting a non-empty folder.
• Dialogs: Enter confirms OK dialogs; removed click-outside-to-dismiss; improved long-text message layout.
• SVN hints: Clearer SVN button tooltip when not in an SVN working copy.

Bug Fixes

• Asset grid: Fixed item position jumping when scrolling with a column count other than 4.
• Library switch: No longer creates the previous library’s thumbnail folder inside the new library.
• Locate folder: Fixed failure to re-select the original asset after “Locate in folder”.

v1.1.2

New Features

• SVN Revert: Revert local uncommitted changes from SVN; also fixes commit errors when batch-deleting assets.
• Close guard: When local uncommitted changes exist, closing the window prompts you to commit first, helping prevent accidental data loss.

Improvements

• About screen: Version info now shows the current distribution channel (e.g. Steam, Microsoft Store) for easier identification.
• Update flow: The update notification button opens the channel-specific download or update page.
• Audio preview: Refined visual layout and interaction in the audio preview area.
• macOS: Improved application icon display on Mac.

Bug Fixes

• Folder deletion: Fixed an issue where deleting a folder whose name contains _ could remove files in other directories.
• SVN commits: Fixed E160028 errors when committing after deleting empty directories.

v1.1.0

New Features

• TGA images: Recognition, preview, and management support for Truevision TGA bitmap assets.
• Search shortcuts: Ctrl+F moves focus to the search field; Esc clears the current search in one step.
• SVN Checkout: Full-screen progress during checkout; optional saving of SVN username and password where appropriate, reducing repeated input.

Improvements

• Update checks & release notes: Polished the in-app update-check UI; added reading and display of multilingual Release Notes.
• Sentry & diagnostics: Symbol uploads and error reports now include the app version and distribution channel for easier production clustering and trace-back.
• More media & font types: Extended support for common raster formats including BMP, GIF, and TIF/TIFF; added recognition and preview paths for TTC font collections.
• Video metadata & thumbnails: When music-metadata cannot produce metadata or thumbnails for some video assets, the app falls back to MediaInfo for better coverage and stable display.
• Switching libraries: Added a global overlay transition when switching libraries to reduce flicker and jarring state changes.
• SVN & settings copy: Improved SVN Checkout dialogs and hints; renamed ambiguous Modify labels on the settings screen to clearer Switch.

BugFix

• Localization: Fixed missing Spanish strings on the About screen.
• Settings & feedback: Fixed Send feedback sometimes missing or unusable under certain layouts or styles (including the settings modal and related styles).
• Sprites display: Fixed incorrect placement or state of the SPRITES badge for Sprites-type assets.
• Search: Fixed search not matching asset tags correctly.
• SVN commits: Fixed failures when filenames contain @ and similar special characters; if any file fails to commit, the whole operation fails with a clear error; fixed the Update button highlight not resetting after Update completes.
• Library paths: Fixed the app silently recreating the “last used library path” on next launch after the user had deleted it.
• Directory tree: Fixed the tree selection not matching the current library after switching libraries.
• Dialogs: Fixed some dialogs not placing default focus in the input field, hurting keyboard efficiency.
• Thumbnail folders: Fixed inability to remove empty thumbnail folders after renaming a directory.

v1.0.0

• Core Preview Engine: Deep support for high-fidelity previews of Spine animations, texture atlases, multimedia, and 3D models.
• Team Collaboration Integration: Built-in SVN version control support for synchronous uploading and pulling of resources and metadata.
• AI Intelligent Empowerment: Integrated multimodal large models to support automated generation of asset tags and note descriptions.
• Asset Positioning System: Provides cross-software sharp-stock:// jump protocols and smart clipboard jump hints.
• Professional Processing Tools: Built-in TinyPNG compression, image rotation/flipping, and Sprite sequence aggregation management tools.